Awards & Recognition
Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, and the Holberg Prize. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
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One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2018One of Forbes' Must-Read Brain Books of 2018
Shortlisted for the Pickstone Prize, British Society for the History of Science
Winner of the CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, Northern California Book Reviewers
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018One of Isthmus' Most Important Books of 2018 (Dave Cieslewicz)
Honorable Mention for the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, Art Libraries Society of North AmericaOne of the New York Times' Best Art Books of 2018
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the 2019 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association
Co-winner of the 2019 Goldsmith Book Prize for Academic Books, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy SchoolWinner of the 2018 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award
Winner of the Lepgold Prize, Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown UniversityHonorable Mention for the Best Book Award, Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2017 Gold Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book AwardsOne of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Jean Pisani-Ferry)
One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2016
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016
One of The Economist’s Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 Cundill History Prize, McGill UniversityShortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
strategy+business Best Business Book of 2017 in Economics
One of The New York Times Deal Book “Business Books Worth Reading” 2017 (chosen by Andrew Sorkin)
One of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017
Selected for The HCSS Bookshelf (chosen by Stephan De Spiegeleire) 2017
One of BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year 2017
One of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Dambisa Moyo)
One of the Economist.com “2017 Books of the Year” in Economics and Business
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics, chosen by Martin Wolf
One of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017, chosen by Mohamed A. El-Erian
One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017
One of World’s 2017 Books of the Year in “Understanding the World”
Medium.com’s Books of the Year 2017, chosen by Mark Koyama